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Black and white images depicting historic space exploration, including Apollo 11 mission details, ion rocket testing, and tobacco research.

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CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- In the AO Building at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, the Pioneer G spacecraft awaits the installation of its protective payload fairing. The interplanetary space probe is scheduled for launch atop an Atlas Centaur rocket from Cape Kennedy April 5, 1973. Pioneer G's nearly two-year mission will take it on an investigation of the asteroid belt, then on to Jupiter, largest planet in our solar system. NASA's launch teams from the Kennedy Space Center will direct final testing and the launch itself. The mission is a project of the Ames Research Center.

GLIDER INVENTED BY OTTO LILIENTHAL IN 1877. Author: OTTO LILIENTHAL.

Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. An unidentified National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) staff member briefs President John F. Kennedy (right) on the operation of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, prior to the presentation ceremony of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. Brevard County, Florida.

Vintage Photograph. Photo illustration composite showing different forms of engineering as well as suburban home superimposed on gear shapes, Frame 1

L57-5383 Hot-air jets employing ceramic heat exchangers played an important role at Langley in the study of materials for ballistic missile nose cones and re-entry vehicles. Here a model is being tested in one of theses jets at 4000 degrees Fahrenheit in 1957. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 477.

scienze naturali, taxidermista con teschio di gorilla, 1949

Treasury Department Laboratory ca. 1910-1920

color view Man in welding goggles on the black background ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/tudorxantonelxadrianx 1494298 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Sojourner's Success Image

Prof. Albert Einstein - Famous Scientist - Personality. March 12, 1951.

Young astronomy enthusiast recording observations next to a telescope under a starry sky.

Vintage photograph. Portrait of laboratory scientist holding up test tubes concentrating on pouring liquid between them - horizontal crop

1980s WOMAN MEDICAL TECHNICIAN SITTING BEHIND MONITOR CONSOLE FOR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER BRAIN IMAGE ON SCREEN

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A researcher operates a demonstration board regarding high-energy propellants during the 1957 Inspection of the NACAs Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. Representatives from the military, aeronautical industry, universities, and the press were invited to the laboratory to be briefed on the NACAs latest research efforts and tour the test facilities. Over 1700 people visited the Lewis during the October 7-10, 1957 Inspection. NACA Executive Secretary John Victory is said to have heard one of the researchers mention outer space during rehearsals for the event. Victory ordered the remark removed so as not give the perception to the visiting dignitaries that the NACA was spending too many of its resources on non-aeronautical pursuits. The launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union days before the event changed everything. The dignitaries wanted to hear about the NACAs rocket work and its space ambitions. The original talks were given, including this one on Lewis recent

Boeing CST-100 MOST CFT Ascent Sim for Eric Boe, Suni Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore.

The photograph shows a medical study of myopathy, captured by Albert Londe around 1890. The print is on silver gelatin paper.

Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury- Redstone (MR-2) suborbital test flight in January, 1961. NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test the Mercury capsule before launching the fisrt American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in May 1961. The Mercury capsule rode atop a modified Redstone rocket, developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the German Rocket Team in Huntsville, Alabama.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.exampel on copartoning of photography.For more info See: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Other revised edition. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1948. p. 597.

Anefo photo collection. Ir R. Dufour hits first post high-rise plan Roeterseilan in Roeterstraat, ir. R. Dufour (Curator University Amsterdam). December 8, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Men in protective clothing spray a kitchen to combat cockroaches. January 16, 1981

S69-39333 (July 1969) --- This is a photographic illustration of how the flag of the United States will be implanted on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts. The flag is three by five feet, and is made of nylon. It will be erected on an eight-foot aluminum staff, and tubing along its top edge will unfurl it in the airless environment of the moon. The implanting of the flag is symbolic of the first time man has landed on another celestial body, and does not constitute a territorial claim by the United States. The photograph on the right shows the flag in a furled condition. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, will implant the flag after their Lunar Module (LM) sets down on the moon. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, will remain with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explore the lunar surface.

Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C. 1958-L-03603 Image Langley engineers Edwin Kilgore (center), Norman Crabill (right) and an unidentified man take a peek inside the vast balloon during inflation tests. Page. 183 Space Flight Revolution NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo. NASA SP-4308.

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Wernher von Braun, seated near a periscope in Kennedy Space Center's Blockhouse 34, on May 28, 1964, looks over a flight manual while awaiting the launch of SA-6, the sixth Saturn I flight. Also known as Apollo Mission A-101, the launch marked the first flight of an Apollo spacecraft with a Saturn launch vehicle.

Anefo photo collection. Atom exhibition. Reactor almost ready. March 28, 1957

Neil Armstrong Operating Attitude Simulator

$Atoms For Peace -- This structure is part of the Norwegian exhibit for the world conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, which opens at the Palais De Nations in Geneva, August 8. It is a model showing the structure of the atoms in calcium hypophosphite to demonstrate the use of neutron defraction in determining crystal structure. October 28, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).$

Chemist E.J. Childs grew a fine beard on the return voyage from the Antarctic of the Admiralty research ship Discovery II, but he sacrificed it when the ship reached Melbourne. September 16, 1950.

Photograph by Albert Londe showing a pathological approach to a patient with syringomyelia, printed on silver gelatin paper around 1890, depicting affected limbs and clinical observation.

Floating on cloud 9 (OV2019_373)

First French Cobalt Bomb at Neuilly. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Seen left to right is Art Arrow,Owen Morris, and John Kiker. This is an image in a series of photographs documenting a " mini "Approach and Landing Test conducted on the Bldg. 14 Antenna Test Range, using a 1/40th-scale model Orbiter and a model airplane. The test was flown to study Orbiter control characteristics and separation dynamics. Simulated Orbiter being dropped from 747. JSC, HOUSTON, TX. S75-33949 thru S75-33957

Poll photo collection. Visit to Naples and Vesuvius. Professor Luigio Carmera in the Observatory. 1938. Italy, Naples

National Physical Laboratory- Science and Technology in Wartime, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK, 1944 In the Photometry Section of the Light Division at the National Physical Laboratory, a technician examines a selection of electric light bulbs which are used as standards in various photometric tests.

S65-22621 (23 March 1965) --- Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (right) during visit to the Misson Control Center at Cape Kennedy during the Gemini-3 mission. Crew members on the Gemini-3 mission are astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot; and John W. Young, pilot.

Two Men preparing to send up Weather Balloon at Weather Bureau at Airport, Washington, D.C., USA, Jack Delano for U.S. Office of War Information, July 1941

Anefo photo collection. Wire television distribution system on "the atom". Mies Bouwman with camera. August 6, 1957

Anefo photo collection. Setting up exhibition Archeology finds from China in Rijksmuseum. 28 November 1974. China

Photograph taken during the Meteor Expedition by F. Spiess. The German Atlantic expedition. Dated 1927

A technician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory cleans the pitot tube on a 16-inch diameter ramjet in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Pitot tubes are a measurement device used to determine the flow velocity at a specific location in the air stream, not the average velocity of the entire wind stream. NACA Lewis was in the midst of a multi-year program to determine the feasibility of ramjets and design improvements that could be employed for all models. The advantage of the ramjet was its ability to process large volumes of combustion air, resulting in the burning of fuel at the optimal stoichiometric temperatures. This was not possible with turbojets. The higher the Mach number, the more efficient the ramjet operated. The 8- by 6 Supersonic Wind Tunnel had been in operation for just over one year when this photograph was taken. The facility was the NACAs largest supersonic tunnel and the only facility capable of running

S65-20593 (1965) --- Riding the elevator to the white room atop the Gemini Launch Vehicle on Pad 19 are astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (left) and John W. Young. The Gemini-Titan 3 flight is scheduled to launch on March 23, 1965. Young is the pilot of the GT-3 mission. Shepard was the Mercury Redstone 3 pilot.

Group of female manufacturing chemists dissecting animal glands, Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

During a Kennedy Space Center (KSC) briefing on the next days Apollo 11 launch, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (with raised hand) asks a question of Rocco A. Petrone, director of launch operations at KSC. To the right of the emperor is astronaut Gordon Cooper and to his left is Dr. Kurt Debus, director of KSC. The first manned lunar launch occurred at 9 32 am on July 16, 1969. The crew included astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. After 21/2 hours of collecting samples on the lunar surface, the crew safely splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.

Lunar Landing Testing at NASA Langley. Lunar Landing Testing at NASA Langley. A simulated environment that contributed in a significant way to the success of Apollo project was the Lunar Landing Research Facility, an imposing 250 foot high, 400 foot long gantry structure that became operational in 1965. Published in the book "Space Flight Revolution" NASA SP-4308 pg. 376

Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C. 1958-L-03603 Image Langley engineers Edwin Kilgore (center), Norman Crabill (right) and an unidentified man take a peek inside the vast balloon during inflation tests. Page. 183 Space Flight Revolution NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo. NASA SP-4308.

Anefo photo collection. FIAREX 80 (DEPARTMENTATION ELECTRONICA) in RAI, Microcomputer mini-data battery recorder. November 3, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Vinvis skeleton Leiden transferred National Historical Museum Hortus; Employees en route framework. June 3, 1987. Leiden, South Holland

Historical Waterfowl Survey. Creator: Schmidt, Rex Gary. Descriptive Note: Recording data during banding operations on 1951 waterfowl survey Locality: Bassano, Alberta, Canada. Subjects: Historical; Waterfowl Survey; Survey; Data; Monitoring; Banding. . 1998 - 2011.

A test monkey in the Hazelton Labs in 1968

S66-43377 (18 July 1966) --- Standing at the flight director's console, viewing the Gemini-10 flight display in the Mission Control Center, are (left to right) William C. Schneider, Mission Director; Glynn Lunney, Prime Flight Director; Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director of Flight Operations; and Charles W. Mathews, Manager, Gemini Program Office.

Louisiana, lake charles, in-depth survival test for civil defense students, 1961.

Mad Scientist

Millimeter-Wave equipment seized in the US enroute to the USSR as part of Operation EXODUS in 1982. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 125, page 109, bottom. Subject Operation/Series: EXODUS Country: Unknown

S61-03893 (26 April 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, wearing the new Mercury spacesuit, poses for a picture during emergency egress training activities at the Florida Space Center. He is seen standing in front of a mock-up of the Mercury capsule.

Scientist conducting experiment on young woman in laboratory

Photograph of a worker handling Plutonium at the Emergency Medical Services Facility, Southwest corner of Central & Third Avenues, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. Dated 1973

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